No. 63
Misfortune
何故生荊棘
佳人意漸疏
久困重輪下
黄金未出渠
In English
- Why do thorns and brambles spring up?
- the beloved's heart slowly drifts away
- long troubled beneath heavy wheels
- the gold has yet to flow from the channel
- Meaning
- The poem ends with gold that has not yet come out of the channel. With thorns growing along the path and a close friend slowly drifting away, trying to force things back seems less useful than waiting for the time to turn.
- What to do today
- Let a strained relationship rest for now, and spend half an hour on something you enjoy.
- A word from the capybara
- Skipping the thorny weeds and looking for the soft grass instead.
What 'Misfortune' means (glossary)
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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